Apollodorus () of

Pergamon Pergamon or Pergamum ( or ; ), also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos (), was a rich and powerful ancient Greece, ancient Greek city in Aeolis. It is located from the modern coastline of the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north s ...

was a

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ian of

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who was the author of a school of rhetoric called after him ''Apollodoreios Hairesis'' (Ἀπολλοδωρειος αἵρεσις), which was subsequently opposed by the school established by Theodorus of Gadara (Θεοδώρειος αἵρεσις). In his advanced age Apollodorus taught rhetoric at Apollonia, and here the young future Roman emperor

Augustus Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (), was the founder of the Roman Empire, who reigned as the first Roman emperor from 27 BC until his death in A ...

was one of his pupils and became his friend. The geographer

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ascribes to him scientific works (τέχνας) on rhetoric, but

Quintilian Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (; 35 – 100 AD) was a Roman educator and rhetorician born in Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing. In English translation, he is usually referred to as Quin ...

on the authority of Apollodorus himself declares only one of the works ascribed to him as genuine, and this he calls ''Ars'' (τέχνη) ''edita ad Matium'', in which the author treated on oratory only insofar as speaking in the courts of justice was concerned. Apollodorus himself wrote little, and his whole theory could be gathered only from the works of his disciples, Gaius Valgius and

Dionysius Atticus Dionysius Atticus of Pergamon was a rhetorician, sophist, historian, and speechwriter of ancient Greece, who lived around the 1st century BCE, and was probably born around 80 BCE. He was a pupil of the celebrated Apollodorus of Pergamon, tutor o ...

Lucian Lucian of Samosata (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridi ...

states that Apollodorus died at the age of eighty-two.C. W. Piderit, ''de Apollodoro Perqameno et Theodoro Gadarensi, Rhetoribus.'' Marburg, 4to

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